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breaking it down to 70% english-only, 22% bilingual. something about coming to america -- america has been referred to as a graveyard of foreign languages and that's happened in the past with every language from gaelic brought over with irish emigrants to polish. now in the future will happen again this vanish. -- spanish. healthy people need to be restrict it come a better way to go about it in the current system dominated by quotas, restrictions, arbitrary regulations. some of the books going back a hundred years they don't make much sense to modern society. that is free marketeers promotion push for the use of prices to regulate immigration more than anything if we have to regulate in the first place. specifically i propose diminutive quotas on immigrants and replacing with a tariff-based system. it terrifies any economist will tell you this much more efficient than a quota-based system. do i talk about international trade, almost all economists are free traders pierpont and new goods and services is restricted and doesn't change bas
breaking it down to 70% english-only, 22% bilingual. something about coming to america -- america has been referred to as a graveyard of foreign languages and that's happened in the past with every language from gaelic brought over with irish emigrants to polish. now in the future will happen again this vanish. -- spanish. healthy people need to be restrict it come a better way to go about it in the current system dominated by quotas, restrictions, arbitrary regulations. some of the books going...
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we know to meet challenges of today's health care environment it has to be done as a group. we must all participate to the difference and this morning the national journal has gathered experts to share their ideas on what's right and what's wrong with medicare, why they must adapt and adopt now so that we can continue to accomplish that which can't be accomplished by any one sector of the health industry alone. i want to thank you for being here this morning and really look forward to the discussion particularly the nature of the participants. thank you very much. [applause] thank you, dr. madara. while we are setting up here for the first panel i want to quickly give you a rundown of this morning's program. we are going to have three distinct panels. first are the leaders on health care followed by a second panel focusing on physicians and finally a panel of experts that will respond to what has been discussed and provide some context for all of us. moderating of three panels today is maggie fox a senior writer on health issues for both nbc news dhaka, and today.com. she pr
we know to meet challenges of today's health care environment it has to be done as a group. we must all participate to the difference and this morning the national journal has gathered experts to share their ideas on what's right and what's wrong with medicare, why they must adapt and adopt now so that we can continue to accomplish that which can't be accomplished by any one sector of the health industry alone. i want to thank you for being here this morning and really look forward to the...
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instead of blocking everything moving forward and blocking amendments, that perhaps we could create a new environment here in the senate where we will let the minority have their amendments but also the minority party will also let the process move forward. and i think that's the tradeoff that was the fundamental aspect of the negotiations that we continued in the senator from michigan's office for many, many days and many hours. if someone wants to block -- i think the senator from michigan and the senator from maryland would agree. if someone wants to block the senator from moving forward, they can at least do it for some period of time. and what's happened here, look back 10, 15 years ago, the tree wasn't filled up. but at the same time, on the other side, amendments were wa t produced by the hundreds. there was -- there's got to b be -- i believe that the object and i believe the outcome of this hard-earned compromise will be that there will be a greater degree of comity in the senate which would allow us to achieve the legislative goals that all of us seek. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent
instead of blocking everything moving forward and blocking amendments, that perhaps we could create a new environment here in the senate where we will let the minority have their amendments but also the minority party will also let the process move forward. and i think that's the tradeoff that was the fundamental aspect of the negotiations that we continued in the senator from michigan's office for many, many days and many hours. if someone wants to block -- i think the senator from michigan...
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to help people expensing this illness to a particular concern to me as a veteran of some who served 22 years in the navy, obligation our nation owes our veterans deserve the mental-health services they need to support their incredible resilient and move towards recovery. nearly 30% of our returning veterans will have a mental health condition requiring treatment. studies have shown more than 80% of veterans have posted that stress disorder, major depression or both. the challenging legacy of service given by these men and women present in virtually every community across the country. the numbers are much greater than we originally thought in 2003, and will reverberate throughout the military and civilian military how this system for years to come. finally, i would like to tell the committee about a program that counselors brought to this country of mental health. we believe it's an exciting new public health approach to educating communities about mental illness. you may know the mental disorders began manifesting themselves by early as 14 years of age. according to the american psychi
to help people expensing this illness to a particular concern to me as a veteran of some who served 22 years in the navy, obligation our nation owes our veterans deserve the mental-health services they need to support their incredible resilient and move towards recovery. nearly 30% of our returning veterans will have a mental health condition requiring treatment. studies have shown more than 80% of veterans have posted that stress disorder, major depression or both. the challenging legacy of...
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in the tight budget environment with the so many competing american priorities, i would ask you to give considerable thought in to limiting significantly resources that would not help us as an economy or country, and not help us globally in perhaps the efforts you might be pursuing there. i dmont if you have specific thoughts? >> i do. i have a lot of specific thoughts. more than we have time for now. i'm not going abuse the privilege. ly say this to you, the solution to climate change is energy policy, and the opportunity of energy policy so vastly outweigh the downsides that you're expressing concern about, and i will spend a lot of time trying to persuade you and other colleagues in this. you want to do business and do it well in america? we've got get to the energy race. other countries are in it. i can tell you massachusetts that the fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy e fresh sei in -- efficiency in companies. they are growing faster than any other sector. the same is true in california. this is a job creator. i can't emphasize that strongly enough. th
in the tight budget environment with the so many competing american priorities, i would ask you to give considerable thought in to limiting significantly resources that would not help us as an economy or country, and not help us globally in perhaps the efforts you might be pursuing there. i dmont if you have specific thoughts? >> i do. i have a lot of specific thoughts. more than we have time for now. i'm not going abuse the privilege. ly say this to you, the solution to climate change is...
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about 22% of tennesseans reported having a mental illness last year. that's more than a million people. this is according to our state department of mental health and substance -- of mental health. about 5% had a severe mental illness. that's nearly a quarter of a million tennesseans. so that's a lot of people. about 41,000 tennesseans had a major depressive episode. the funding that helps meet the needs for that comes in some part from the federal government, about 22% of what tennessee spends untold is federal dollars. the rest of state dollars. in the community services, state appropriations, about 70% of the mental health fund. so why the federal, has a role here, it's a support role, a supplementary role. it's a role that ought to make things easier instead of harder. in preparing for this, it seems to me that putting a face on the individuals who need help, one group will be a nine year old boy who's always been pleasant but suddenly started define his teachers, his grades slipped, and he didn't want to go to boy scouts, and didn't want to play w
about 22% of tennesseans reported having a mental illness last year. that's more than a million people. this is according to our state department of mental health and substance -- of mental health. about 5% had a severe mental illness. that's nearly a quarter of a million tennesseans. so that's a lot of people. about 41,000 tennesseans had a major depressive episode. the funding that helps meet the needs for that comes in some part from the federal government, about 22% of what tennessee spends...
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it is very different than the environment we have grown up then. the ability to take the benefit and roll it together, when you start to think about retirement projections, you really have a comprehensive view of what you have accumulated and you continue to build on that. we have studied participants age 20 to age 24 and 51% never engage in a plan at all. 4% of this population will cash out, i'm sorry, 24%. 33%, maybe they get to 4% from a cash them out, they will never accumulate a retirement. >> i would like to touch base on a couple of things. financial literacy, the pension committee and we need to have financial literacy education. i forgot who assigned you, was a senator and the aid reign i would like to have your students work on a math curriculum uses all of the issues and the retirement to teach math also teach financial literacy at the same time. because we used to have shop and home back and pole is home economics. so there is a place for us to help kids understand the world they are going into. so they don't get in trouble with credit
it is very different than the environment we have grown up then. the ability to take the benefit and roll it together, when you start to think about retirement projections, you really have a comprehensive view of what you have accumulated and you continue to build on that. we have studied participants age 20 to age 24 and 51% never engage in a plan at all. 4% of this population will cash out, i'm sorry, 24%. 33%, maybe they get to 4% from a cash them out, they will never accumulate a...
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i didn't want to, my staff gave me a list of 22 things we needed in new york and i was dying to ask him -- >> only 11. >> yeah, right. on the morning of his inauguration i figured that was not quite appropriate. so a rare moment of restraint. >> humor he is very shy. >> rare moment, rare moment of restraint. >> okay. let's plunge in. on monday you put out the five-page bipartisan, bipartisan framework and the "politico" we like to read between the lines. in the bipartisan agreement it talked about nonforgeable electronic means of employment verification that is code for a super social security card that would have some sort of biometric thing like a fingerprint in it. senator schumer, you said you were for this. senator mccain, what is your view of requiring that? >> i'm for this. i would like to remind you 9/11 commission made a series of recommendations. one of three that was never implemented was this kind of identification that's required. now exactly how you, what you call it and how you get to it but there is technology now that could give us a social security card, people with so
i didn't want to, my staff gave me a list of 22 things we needed in new york and i was dying to ask him -- >> only 11. >> yeah, right. on the morning of his inauguration i figured that was not quite appropriate. so a rare moment of restraint. >> humor he is very shy. >> rare moment, rare moment of restraint. >> okay. let's plunge in. on monday you put out the five-page bipartisan, bipartisan framework and the "politico" we like to read between the lines....
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we all sound better in a group, we all work together in a group and that was exemplified in so many ways by pastor woody's leadership at first lutheran. it's a lesson we all can learn in this body and as we go about our daily lives. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. brown: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: and i ask unanimous consent the senate recess until 2:00 p.m. to allow for caucus meetings today. the presiding officer: without objection. objection. >> on the filibuster. will have more details on that and we expect the senate to gavel in shortly. we will have live coverage when the senate resumes here on c-span2. >> personal-finance starts in the 1930s with sylvia porter. it's a spinoff of the 1930s. the 1930s are known for everything from the hard economic times of the 1930s. easy everything from alcoholics anonymous developed in the 1930s to the pole in, think the
we all sound better in a group, we all work together in a group and that was exemplified in so many ways by pastor woody's leadership at first lutheran. it's a lesson we all can learn in this body and as we go about our daily lives. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. brown: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer:...
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with a really good group working here. our final college has been a part of this them an indispensable one or we worked on this issue in the context of another piece of legislation which we hope will get moving soon. senator coons, my colleague from delaware and we are interested in hearing from him about this issue as well. >> thank you, senator rubio. i greatly appreciate the opportunity work with you on this legislation. and in the last congress on the more than three bills that we cosponsor. they would focus on how to create jobs and how to drive our economy forward. senator hatch, i'm grateful for your leadership. senator klobuchar, for your companionship as we start to get on the judiciary committee and that's the fourth was introduced today this bill of which we are so proud to immigration innovation act of 2013. mr. president, for decades the united states enjoyed a commanding advantage of being home to all the world's top universities, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math, in the so-called s.t
with a really good group working here. our final college has been a part of this them an indispensable one or we worked on this issue in the context of another piece of legislation which we hope will get moving soon. senator coons, my colleague from delaware and we are interested in hearing from him about this issue as well. >> thank you, senator rubio. i greatly appreciate the opportunity work with you on this legislation. and in the last congress on the more than three bills that we...
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is you have a situation where 65-year-olds leaving the work force are about as educated as the 21, 22-year-olds entering the work force right now, whereas if you look at east asia, there's a big, big gap. the workers are getting smarter and smarter with each passing year. it's one of the reasons that a lot of economists believe that our productivity growth is going to be stagnant. so i think we need to talk about this as an issue that is directly relevant to middle class voters and talk about it as a real core economic policy issue. and i think that's a big, big opportunity for conservatives as well. next question. >> see? >> yes, thank you. [laughter] john from massachusetts. my question is a pragmatic one from an activist point of view. let's assume we pull together the really good ideas and we have great leadership, and we create an inspiring vision. the question is, how do you transmit that inspiring vision to the average voter? >> be well, the perp that i always alternative finish the person i always turn to for inspiring visions and john pod podhoretz, and i wonder if you have a
is you have a situation where 65-year-olds leaving the work force are about as educated as the 21, 22-year-olds entering the work force right now, whereas if you look at east asia, there's a big, big gap. the workers are getting smarter and smarter with each passing year. it's one of the reasons that a lot of economists believe that our productivity growth is going to be stagnant. so i think we need to talk about this as an issue that is directly relevant to middle class voters and talk about...